Noisy Workers Fired Upon

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WEST PALM BEACH - — Frank Richard Eddie couldn't sleep because of workers running their machines at a school next door to his home.

But when Eddie, 45, asked them to cut the noise, they refused.

So, he fired his gun at them, police said in a report released on Tuesday.

Police charged Eddie with aggravated assault. He was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on $3,000 bail.

Eddie told police that shortly before 10 a.m. on Jan 15, he was awakened because his house was shaking. He found two workers using a noisy steam-rolling machine at Forest Hill High School.

"Eddie was upset and started yelling," Officer Kimberly Murphy wrote in her report. "He told them to stop rolling the large steam roller machine, but they told him they were unable to stop, it was their job."

The men told Eddie to speak to their boss, who was working at another end of the campus. Instead, Eddie fired his gun in their direction.